Using the 2007 siege of the Lal Masjid in Pakistan, the book outlines important lessons and practical guidelines for crisis negotiators, incident commanders, and political decision makers, in order to highlight tools necessary to manage possible similar crises in the future more effectively.

Khuram Iqbal, Adam Dolnik

Adam Dolnik, PhD is Professor of Terrorism Studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia, and a former Professor of Counterterrorism at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Germany. In the past, Dolnik has also served as Chief Trainer at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) in Singapore, and as a researcher at the Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Research Project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. Dolnik has delivered lectures and training courses on terrorism and hostage negotiation in over 50 countries, and regularly conducts field research in challenging environments (for example in North Caucasus, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uganda, Sudan, Southern Philippines, DRC, Colombia, among others).

Khuram Iqbal is co-author of Pakistan: Terrorism Ground Zero. After receiving a doctorate in Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism from Macquarie University (Australia) he joined National Defence University of Pakistan as an Assistant Professor of Counter-Terrorism. Previously, he served as Research Coordinator at Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, Islamabad, where he planned and executed a number of research projects on radicalization and terrorism in Pakistan. A graduate in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore, Khuram Iqbal has also worked as senior analyst at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), Singapore.